@carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems @piggz@fosstodon.org I don't know for sure, but I imagine the idea was to prevent an AOSP style forking situation, which required compatibility suites and strongarming OEMs with Play Services to solve the fragmentation. The amount of closed code has been shrinking lately though. Several of the core apps that have been closed since Sailfish OS launched in 2013 were opened last year, like the Weather, Camera and Gallery apps.